Section 2: Provisions relating to the special grant for school construction and equipment

Municipalities, groupings of municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation or any legal entity under public law exercising competence relating to the construction and renovation of schools may receive a special grant for the construction and equipment of schools in the form of a subsidy. This grant is entered in the investment or operating section of the budget of the public entity to which the grant is awarded, subject to the…

The State representative allocates these credits in the form of grants, with a view to carrying out individualised investments relating to the construction or renovation of primary schools, under the conditions set out in articles D. 2564-8 et seq.

These subsidies are allocated on the basis of a programme drawn up by the State representative following the opinion of a departmental committee, the composition of which he decides, and on the basis of a school building development plan drawn up by the competent authorities. The State representative decides on the list of operations eligible for subsidy, as well as the amount and rate of the subsidy. A report on…

The grant application is submitted by the mayor, the president of the competent inter-communal public cooperation establishment, the president or director of any public law legal entity exercising competence relating to the construction and renovation of schools. For the application of article D. 2564-7, the list of documents to be produced in support of the application is determined by order of the minister responsible for overseas France.

Within three months of the date of receipt of the grant application, the Prefect will inform the applicant that the application, drawn up in accordance with article D. 2564-9, is complete, or will request the production of any missing documents. In the latter case, the deadline is suspended. In the absence of notification of the administration’s response on expiry of the three-month period, the application is deemed to be complete.

I. – No grant may be awarded if work has begun on the operation before the date on which the application is declared or deemed complete. Commencement of execution of the operation is constituted by the first legal act entered into for the purposes of carrying out the operation or, in the case of work carried out on a contract basis, by the constitution of supplies or the start of…

Acknowledgement of the completeness of the application and a waiver granted on the basis of II of article D. 2564-11 do not constitute a decision to award the grant. An application for a grant is deemed to have been rejected if it has not been the subject of an awarding order no later than during the financial year following that in respect of which the application was made. If, after…

The order awarding the grant mentions: a) The designation and characteristics of the operation, the nature and the estimated amount excluding taxes of the subsidisable expenditure; b) The estimated timetable for the operation, the estimated amount of the grant and its rate; c) The deadlines provided for in articles D. 2564-15 and D. 2564-16; d) The grant payment terms provided for in article D. 2564-17 as well as the repayment…

In the case of the renovation of schools, the rate of the grant awarded under the allocation for the construction and renovation of schools is limited to 80% of the subsidisable base. .

If, on expiry of a period of two years from notification of the grant, the operation for which it was awarded has not begun to be carried out, the Prefect will declare that the decision to award the grant has lapsed. For operations that can be carried out in the short term, the prefect may, however, set a deadline of less than two years. For the application of the first…